The Descent from the Cross: a Sketch, 1642

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 15 x 11.8 cm (5 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 82, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.7179

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Provenance

Furst zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (Lugt 2715a); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from Richard Zinser; given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1946: The Life of Christ as Depicted in the Etchings of Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no cat.

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

Bibliography

1923: Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969: White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 204, only.